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Competencies

Topic Competency Evaluation Methods
Prototyping Concepts
Describe the relationship between wireframes, prototypes, and requirements documents.
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Describe the value of creating a prototype in addition to creating a requirements document and/or a wireframe.
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List and describe the five types of prototypes.
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List and describe the eight guiding principles for prototyping.
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List and describe the ways in which prototypes often save a business time and money, and can result in a better product.
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Describe the similarities between industrial design prototyping process and web application design prototyping.
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Describe the Ockham’s Razor design principle and how it might guide the prototyping design process.
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Describe the value of prototype critiques.
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Conduct a critique of a peer’s work.
  • Assignment: Review of Peer’s Prototype
Identify how the fidelity of a prototype might impact its effectiveness and insights it might generate.
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  • Assignment: Paper Prototype, Assignment: Fireworks Prototype, Assignment: HTML Prototype
Describe the value of being technology-agnostic when prototyping immature concepts and technology-specific for more mature concepts.
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Prototyping Methods Create a series of prototypes of varied fidelity using a variety of methods.
  • Assignment: Paper Prototype, Assignment: Fireworks Prototype, Assignment: HTML Prototype
Describe the benefit of shorter, rapid, iterative cycles with prototyping over longer more detailed cycles.
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Create a series of prototypes sketches on sketchboards.
  • Assignment: Paper Prototype
List and describe the advantages and disadvantages of sketching on paper, on whiteboards, and in code.
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List the tools you might use to create a prototype.
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Testing Prototypes List and describe common mistakes made when testing prototypes.
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Identify target demographics for a usability test.
  • Assignment: Prototype Usability Test
List best practices for conducting a usability test.
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List and describe the goals and intent of a usability study.
  • Assignment: Prototype Usability Test
Prepare a usability test screener, and a test plan.
  • Assignment: Prototype Usability Test
Conduct a usability test of a prototype, and prepare an analysis of the data gathered.
  • Assignment: Prototype Usability Test